16 June 2017 The Human Rights Council this morning concluded its general debate on human rights situations requiring the Council's attention. In the discussion, speakers drew the Council's attention to a number of human rights issues worldwide, including harassment of civil society's activities and limitations on their work, crackdown on freedom of expression and media freedom, religiously motivated violence against minorities and false accusations of blasphemy, denial of rights to indigenous peoples, denial of the right to development and of economic, social and cultural rights, women's rights and the vulnerability of women and girls in conflict situations, and the illegal exploitation of...
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